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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump took an online victory lap Sunday morning — gloating on Twitter about his sudden embrace by Republican elites and bashing the New York Times.

Trump reveled in the well-wishes he received from a series of GOP luminaries who publicly opposed his campaign, including vanquished primary foe Jeb Bush, who he repeatedly derided as “low-energy.”

“Jeb Bush, George W and George H.W. all called to express their best wishes on the win. Very nice!,” he tweeted.

Trump likewise praised the call he got from Matt Romney, who he dissed as a “choke artist” for losing the 2012 election to President Obama.

“Mitt Romney called to congratulate me on the win. Very nice!” he wrote.

But Trump took a veiled shot at another ex-primary foe, Ohio Gov. John Kasich — who boycotted the GOP convention in Cleveland and cast a write-in vote for US Sen. John McCain — by only complimenting his constituents.

“Governor John Kasich of the GREAT, GREAT, GREAT State of Ohio called to congratulate me on the win. The people of Ohio were incredible!,” he tweeted.

Trump also addressed Friday’s stunning letter from the Times’ publisher and editor, in which they tacitly admitted underestimating his support among the voters and vowed to “rededicate ourselves” to objective journalism.

“Wow, the @nytimes is losing thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the ‘”Trump phenomena’” Trump wrote.

He later added: “The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me. I wonder if it will change – doubt
it?”